LETTER TO HUGO FROM SANTA FE
Jon Davis is the author of six chapbooks and seven full-length poetry collections, including Above the Bejeweled City and more.
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Cassandra Whitaker
- Jan 16, 2023
- 2 min
When It Rains Indoors
Cassandra Whitaker (they/them) is a trans writer from Virginia whose work has been published in Michigan Quarterly Review and more.
Juliana Gray
- Jan 2, 2023
- 1 min
After Begging My Students, for the 87th Time, to Go Beyond Physical Description in Their Love Poems
Juliana Gray’s most recent poetry collection is Honeymoon Palsy (Measure Press 2017).
Carrie Esposito
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
The Children Left Behind
Carrie Esposito’s short stories have been published in The Georgia Review, Ruminate Magazine, Monkey Bicycle, The MacGuffin, and more.
Katie Burgess
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
LMAO
Katie Burgess lives near a mayonnaise factory in South Carolina. Her work can be found in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more.
Thea Swanson
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
Teacher
Thea Swanson is a feminist atheist who holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Oregon.
Liz Ahl
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
At the University Hockey Game
Liz Ahl is the author of the poetry collections A Case for Solace and Beating the Bounds.
Jessie Lovett Allen
- Oct 26, 2022
- 1 min
First Day at the Community College
Jessie Lovett Allen is originally from western New York and currently teaches English at North Platte Community College in western Nebraska.
Larry Narron
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
Yearbook
Larry Narron is a poet and teacher from Southern California. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Phoebe, Bayou, Hobart, and more.
Diana Mullins
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Student Environmental Learning Facility
Diana Mullins is an author and editor who taught writing and theater arts in Maine and California.
Matt McGuirk
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Can’t we just Read SparkNotes?
Matt McGuirk teaches and lives with his family in New Hampshire. BOTN 2021 nominee and regular contributor for Fevers of the Mind and more.
Brian McVety
- Aug 22, 2022
- 7 min
About Your Lesson Plans
Brian McVety is a teacher who lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts with his wife and three daughters.
Mick Bennett
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
Loose Change
Mick Bennett is a retired teacher/adjunct. He and his wife enjoy porch sitting with a golden retriever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Wm. Walters
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Teachers
Wm. Walters has been a professor of English and linguistics at Rock Valley College, in Rockford, IL, for the past thirty-three years.
Carol Parris Krauss
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
My Flag of Surrender Gently Swaying
Carol Parris Krauss enjoys using place/nature as theme vehicles. Her poetry can be found at– Louisiana Literature, Scrawl Place, and more.
Rebecca L'Bahy
- Jun 30, 2022
- 4 min
How to Zoom like a Fourth Grader
Rebecca L'Bahy is a poet and writer who teaches middle school in Massachusetts.
Nikki Schulak
- Jun 13, 2022
- 9 min
Having Conversations with Children about Bodies
Nikki Schulak is a 1st grade teacher in Portland, OR. Her students sometimes call her "the real Ms Frizzle" because her bearded dragon.
Francois Bereaud
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
First Year
Francois Bereaud celebrated turning 50 a few years back by completing an MFA at San Diego State University.
Sara Behnke
- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
Understood
Sara Behnke teaches high school English in North Carolina. Prior to teaching, she authored two books on Motherhood.
Margaret D. Stetz
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
September
Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.
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